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The 4th Floor [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
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First-time director Josh Klauser manages an entertaining if not totally engaging piece of urban paranoia--what apartment dweller hasn't worried about a secretive neighbour?--but lets it all slip into a silly, half-baked climax and a thoroughly predictable final twist. He also slips in references to Rear Window and Pacific Heights (two other paranoid tales of nasty neighbours), but none of it compares to morning-show personality Hurt's creepy TV weather clown routine: he sings, he dances, he chirps "Rise and shine" with the droopy-eyed intensity of an over-caffeinated drug addict. Now that's scary. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com
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Editorial
Amazon.co.uk Review
In The 4th Floor interior decorator Juliette Lewis inherits a handsome, huge New York apartment at the rent-controlled monthly bargain of $400. It looks too good to be true: it is. Walking into the creepiest collection of neighbours since Roman Polanski's The Tenant, she's accosted by nosy first-floor busybody Shelley Duvall ("Is that your boyfriend? Oh, you like older men?"), a surly caretaker who isn't allowed his own set of keys, a mystery tenant who flees at the sight of her, and a reclusive fourth-floor neighbour who turns a war of wills into an all-out guerrilla campaign of terror. When her place is overrun with rats and maggots (yuck!), pushy boyfriend William Hurt insists she leave, but she's determined to continue her first bout of independence...even if it kills her.
A very good futuristic thriller
Review date: 2004-07-18 Rating: 8 out of 10
Set in the 1990's a computer programmer establishes a mainframe pc network on the 4th floor of a skyscraper to simulate life in 1930's chicago. However before he knows it the world he has created is more real than he first belives and ultimatly results in his death. His assistants then send themselves into this computer simulated world to work out what is going on. There is a massive twist at the end!
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Reviews
Easy-to-watch, enjoyable fun
Review date: 2001-06-20 Rating: 8 out of 10
I decided to give this one a whirl as it sounded like a good, gripping story, and I wasn't disappointed. It kept me guessing until the end, and Juliette Lewis was very good, but I've found her to be good in all her movies I've seen. I think the ending, when we find out whodunnit, was a bit of a cop-out though, but then in this type of film, the endings usually are.
Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
William Hurt
Tobin Bell
Juliette Lewis
Shelley Duvall
Austin Pendleton
Creators:
Juliette Lewis (Primary Contributor)
William Hurt (Primary Contributor)
Josh Klausner (Writer)
Avi Lerner (Producer)
Boaz Davidson (Producer)
Brad Weston (Producer)
Danny Dimbort (Producer)
Danny Lerner (Producer)
John Thompson (Producer)
Director(s):
Recording label: Sterling
Manufacturer: Sterling
EAN: 0084296406500
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: Colour, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC,
Release date: 2004-06-15
Universal product code (UPC): 084296406500
Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
Region code: 1
Running time: 90 minutes
Theatrical release date: 1999
Language: English (Original Language)